Benefits

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers held health benefit cost increases to about 6% in 2008 for a fourth straight year, but that meant shifting more cost to...

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers still looking for talent find hiring new people to be more daunting than managing even "poorly performing" members of their current workforce,...

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human Resources Generalist crept into the Number 25 spot in Jobfox's listing of the top 25 most recession-proof jobs.

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Some 76% of employed baby boomers and 68% of Generation Y workers say the workplace is among their most reliable sources of information about...

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Enrollment in consumer-directed or high-deductible health plans eligible for a tax-preferred savings account increased to 9.8 million this year, but participants are more...

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An amended collective action complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against McDonald's Corporation on...

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded asset manager in the U.S., has announced layoffs for the first time in its two-decade history.

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Consumer Reports Health.org found 45% of those polled planned to skip a 2008 flu shot.

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers and MSN have teamed up to offer an online improv show that lets you control the comedy.

November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey indicates that for millions of pre-retirees around the globe, they are thinking less about enjoying the good life in retirement...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the reasons commonly cited behind the sponsorship of deferred compensation programs is to attract and retain valued workers.

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford is now facing litigation from its own employees, who have lost hundreds of millions of dollars of retirement savings invested in...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research indicates that too many investment choices in a 401(k) plan may lead participants who are inexperienced investors to take on more...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has provided an 89-page "Call to Action" to reform the American health care system.

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 2008 Health Confidence Survey, providing high quality care and making health care more affordable are the...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Hewitt indicates the majority (51%) of U.S. multinational organizations do not plan to change their positions on salary increases...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in the University of California Retirement Plan will begin making contributions next year to offset losses from the financial crisis, after an...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that U.S. District Court Judge Mary H. Murguia has entered a consent decree for $1,875,000...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-in-five veterans (17%) looking for a job said it took more than six months to secure one after leaving active duty, according...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Mercer study of multinational companies' retirement savings and other benefit programs concludes that employees' "disturbing" lack of understanding of how to...